tic

Chris used to have a grim, distinctive tic of executing his enemies in the head; now, the climactic battle is just a spray of bullets.

One aggravating visual tic is that most of the male characters are photocopies of each other, a stack of handsome men with sandy brown goatees.

At that point, Mike Myers bursts into the Oval Office as a ball of weird tics meant to represent Musk.

It was psychotic and compulsive, but eventually I started recognizing patterns in his voice and the kind of tics and bits he was doing, and then embodying them.

When he eventually explodes into thinking, delivering a monologue of disordered intellectual half-thoughts and rhetorical tics, the stage convulses in Lewis Carroll absurdity.